The patient was supposed to be shifted to Sassoon General Hospital in Pune for treatment, but had to be taken to a private hospital in the same area. It has caused the public health department to issue a show-case to the service providers on Thursday.

The public works department demanded Rs 151 crore from the state government in the supplementary budget ahead of the monsoon session of the assembly to complete the pending work at the new 11-storeyed facility of Sassoon General Hospital.

The condition of a 33-year-old serving soldier, who had undergone the 15-hour double hand transplant, became critical after the surgery, and the surgeons were forced to remove the transplanted limbs to save his life.

The success of the 59-bedded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Sassoon General Hospital has spurred Pune-based Mukul Madhav Foundation to replicate a similar project in four hospitals run by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).

At a time when most private hospitals have turned their back to the state government’s Rajeev Gandhi Jeevandayi Arogya Yojana, the state-run Sassoon general hospital has earned Rs 4.69 crore by extending the benefit of the scheme to public at large.

Consumption of food contaminated with Salmonella can cause salmonellosis, one of the most common bacterial food-borne illnesses. The most common symptoms of salmonellosis are diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever within 12 to 72 hours after eating the contaminated product.

According to the research published in the journal 'Cancer Prevention Research', the most significant reduction in risk occurred in the first 10 years after quitting, with a modest but continued decline in later years.